Club World Cup 2025: "A fiction staged by FIFA, driven by its president" (S. Marchi, FIFPRO)

The FIFA Club World Cup "hides a dangerous disconnection with the true reality that most footballers around the world are going through. What was presented as a global festival of football was nothing more than a fiction staged by FIFA, driven by its president, without dialogue, without sensitivity and without respect for those who sustain the game with their daily efforts," said Sergio Marchi (ARG), president of FIFPRO, on 15/07/2025, referring to the competition which ended with the final (Chelsea FC - Paris Saint-Germain, 3-0) at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, near New York on 13/07/2025.

"A grandiloquent staging that inevitably recalls the 'bread and circuses' of Nero's Rome, entertainment for the masses while behind the curtain the inequality, precariousness and lack of protection of the real protagonists deepens," added the president of the World Players' Union in a statement that News Tank Football has reproduced in full below.

This text was published three days after a meeting between FIFA and "representatives of several players' unions from around the…